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RecA requirements
| Link to this post | posted 21 Jun, 2023 19:03 | |
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Sally Molloy (University of Maine, Honors College) has shown an in-depth investigation of what is needed to call a protein RecA. Attached is a doc with links to her Power Point presentation and her video describing her presentation. |
12Kb| Link to this post | posted 28 Mar, 2024 15:58 | |
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I have a question. In DoobyDoo, Feature 65 (on Phamerator), stop 45445, has some of the features of a RecA, but not all of them. Therefore, I do not believe we should call this a RecA recombinase. On this powerpoint, our cluster (DV), falls under the category of not having a RecA recombinase but calling it anyway. Does this mean that we should not call it a RecA recombinase, or that we should call it a RecA, even though it is not a true RecA recombinase? Thank you, Beth Rueschhoff Indiana University Southeast |
| Link to this post | posted yesterday, 17:18 | |
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We had a recent putative RecA that had some curious results so am following up on the "How to call a RecA". Our protein had what appeared to be two significant differences to the standard model. One of the hydrolytic residues did not appear to be present and the C-terminal Mg binding domain was totally missing. See the attached for more details but the final result was that our protein was still a RecA once we investigated, and shows the limits of HHPRED and the idea that anything conserved is necessary for activity. |